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[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America
I found this book a profoundly discriptive narrative that shon a light into something you always new was there, but you could never quite make out the sheer scale of. Michelle Alexander is clearly a truly educated woman and in a world where ignorance all to often blurs the lines of reality she adds a little focus on something we should all be taking a harder look at.
“the two races had surprised each other and astonished their opponents by the harmony they achieved and the good will with which they co-operated.”27 But when it became clear that the conservatives would stop at nothing to decimate their alliance, the biracial partnership dissolved, and Populist leaders re-aligned themselves with conservatives.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
James’s 2025 Year in Books
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